Chapter 10

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Callen never slept much as it was, but with Nell by his side he was sleeping longer than usual. It was 2am when Callen woke up to find Nell snuggled into his side. He got up carefully doing his best not to wake Nell in the process. He put a pillow under her head and laid her down on the couch and covered her up with a blanket that lay on the back of the couch.

He pulled out his IPAD and sat on the other side of the room and put on his language flash card program for Polish on his tablet, made a cup of tea and sat down to run through the program. He glanced over at Nell occasionally to make sure he hadn't woke her up.

Callen had been going through his program for the last 20 minutes. He turned around to see Nell walked towards him.

"Sorry, did I wake you?" he said in a soft tone.

"No, I just can't sleep?" She said as she walked over to him.

"Nightmares?" He asked

"I just keep thinking what would have happened if you wouldn't have found me, you know."

Callen turned looking directly in the eyes. "Hey, hey you don't have to worry about that. He's gone. He can't hurt you." He said as he pulled her into him.

"I know. I'd rather not think about it. I'm here and I'm safe and with you." She said with a smile and she withdrew from the hug and headed into the kitchen to grab a cup of tea.

"What language are you practicing tonight?" She asked from the kitchen.

"Little bit of Polish tonight." He said.

Nell smiled as she drank from her cup, walked over and sat down next to Callen. "The only language I speak is Spanish."

"Maybe you can learn some more one day, but in the mean time you should get some sleep."

Nell nodded, finished her tea and headed into the bedroom. "Are you coming?" she asked.

"I'll be there soon." He said.

Nell smiled and headed to bed and Callen headed into join her 10 minutes later. He lay down next to Nell and wrapped his arm and around her torso. Nell squirmed and she snuggled back into him. Callen smiled as he nuzzled into her smiling as they both fell asleep.

Nell had tossed and turned a little during the night. When she woke up the next morning she found herself head to head with Callen. Nell moaned and she slowly opened to find Callen starting to do the exact same thing.

"Mmm, good morning Ms Jones." He said

"Mmm good morning Mr Callen." She said as Callen leant into kiss her. They broke the kiss as Callen pulled Nell into him. Nell ran her hand over Callen's chest as she used her hand to push his shirt up as she kissed his torso. Her soft lips felt amazing as she kissed her way over his torso, while using her other hand to push up his shirt. Callen let out a soft moan as she continued to kiss him. Nell continued to work her way up Callen's body until her lip met his. Callen smiled as he continued to kiss her.

Suddenly Callen's phone started ringing. Callen reached out to grab his phone as Nell continued to kiss his neck. He looked at the caller ID. "Sam" he read. He turned the phone to Nell who stopped to look who it was and then looked at Callen almost as if they were having a telepathic conversation. Nell nodded as she got up from the bed leaving Callen to answer the call.

"Yeah Sam" he said

"You took a while to answer the call. Did I interrupt something G?"

Callen didn't respond. "What's going on Sam?"

"We were supposed to meet and go for a run before work. I'm at your house, but you're not here. Let me guess you're at Nell's?"

"Actually yes. I was reluctant to let her out of my sight after what happened."

"I understand G. Sorry if I interrupted something. Do you want me to swing by and pick you up?"

"You didn't interrupt anything Sam and yes please that would be good. Is my go-bag still in your car?"

"Yeah it is. Wait, did you not bring a change of clothes with you?"

"No Sam I forgot okay I was a little more concerned about Nell, especially after what happened yesterday.

"Fair enough I'll see you soon G." Said Sam as he hung up the phone.

While Callen was talking to Sam. Nell was talking to Kensi

Nell pulled out her phone and dialed Kensi's number. Kensi rolled over snoozing what she thought was her alarm was actually Nell ringing. Not looking at the number Kensi answered the phone and put it to her ear.

"Deeks, I swear if this is one of your pranks I'm gonn…"

"Kensi, its Nell. Sorry if I woke you."

Kensi opened her eyes wider; she was more awake now as she made her way to the kitchen for coffee.

"No, no, its okay I was up. What's going on?"

Nell remained silent for a couple of seconds.

"Nell? Are you there? "

"Yeah"

"This is about you and Callen isn't it."

"Yeah, I need to talk to someone about it. A girl you know. Can we meet up after work?"

"Yeah sure." Said Kensi

"Great thanks Kens."

"Anytime." She said as she hung up the phone.

Callen walked in to find Nell in the kitchen making coffee. She turned and handed him a mug.

"So Sam's coming to picking me up."

Nell just looked at him as she drank her coffee.

"We were supposed to meet for a run before work and he went passed my place and…"

"And you weren't there."

Callen nodded. "It's okay, he's on his way over here, we can train when we get into the office."

"How long until Sam gets here? Do you have a minute to talk?

"I don't know how long he'll be, but yeah, sure we can talk. Is everything okay?" he asked as he sat down with his coffee at the table.

Meanwhile Sam had pulled up at the entrance to Nell's. He walked up to the door and could hear Nell and Callen talking on the other side.

"Yeah. I just um I feel like I'm taking you away from doing things with other people, like Sam this morning for instance. I mean I don't get me wrong I love having you here with me and I love spending time with you. I know that you said that I scared you with what happened with Draeger. I'm sorry that I made you go through that. I just get the feeling that you feel like you have to protect me. But I don't want you to cut yourself off from Sam and everyone else and use all your time and energy protecting me. Even though we're dating we are still two individual people you know."

Callen took a moment and looked at Nell with a look that she could have sworn looked straight through her. She was nervous. She didn't know what he was thinking what he was about to say.

Callen took a deep breath in.

"I know things have been intense lately with the shooting and with us getting together. I'll be honest I was scared about all of this. Sam even spoke to me about it. He knew I had feelings for you. He told me that I connected with you more than I have with anyone, ever."

Nell smiled.

"I opened to Sam about how nervous I was about us because I've never invested in a relationship. I've always been the lone wolf. Doing everything by myself. Then everything that happened with Draeger and you and me and…

Callen looked away, down towards the floor.

"Callen?"

"When I found out he took you I felt like….I felt angry, scared, anxious that I was going to lose you that I never going to see you again, hold you again."

Now everything that Callen had talking about what was bothering him, his actions made sense to Nell.

Nell; who was sitting across from Callen took his hand. "I'm sorry I didn't realise that's why you were acting the way you were."

Sam was standing outside Nell's door listening to the conversation between Nell and Callen smiling. He was smiling. Callen was finally being real about his emotions and what he felt about Nell.

Callen took a deep breath in and shook his head. "It's not your fault Nell. When I got you back I didn't want to let you go. It's been hard for me. I've never needed anyone before, but I need you Nell.

Nell and Callen got up at the same time and walked over to each other with Callen pulling her into him.

Nell looked up at Callen. "I promise you I'm not going anywhere. You're not going to lose me. Okay?"

Callen nodded.

"Thank you for finally telling me about how you really felt by the way. I could tell it was weighing on your mind."

Callen thought for a moment and after realizing what she had done Callen pulled back a little and looked down. "Wait a minute, you did that to…."

"Help you, yes and me. I had somethings to get off my chest as well."

"You could give Nate a run for his money Nell" he said as he kissed her forehead.

"Compliment accepted" she said with a smile.

Callen chuckled.

"In all seriousness though, you need to spend some time with Sam. I'm having a girl's night out tonight with Kensi to catch up. Why don't you take some time to catch up with Sam? It would be good for you guys. Grab a beer or something, whatever it is you guys do"

Callen chuckled "Yeah that sounds good. You have fun with your girl's night out with Kensi. You know she's going to want to gossip about all this right?"

"Yeah I know. I have a plan for that."

Callen gave her puzzled look.

"I'll just re-direct the conversation back to Deeks. That'll keep her occupied. She could talk about him all night." She said with a smile.

"You are good Nell. I'll give you that" he said as he chuckled.

Nell smiled.

A knock at the door broke the moment they were having. Nell walked over to answer it and opened it to find Sam standing at the door frame. "Morning Sam" she said with a smile. "Come in."

"Morning Nell, thanks." He said as he entered her apartment. "Morning G." he said with a smile. "Here's your go- bag." He said as he handed over the bag to Callen.

"I'm just gonna go change and I'll be right back." Said Callen as he disappeared into the bathroom leaving Nell and Sam in the living room standing awkwardly.

"Can I get you something to drink Sam, tea, coffee, juice?"

"I'm good, thanks Nell."

They both stood in silence for a couple of seconds until Sam broke the silence.

"I heard what you said" Said Sam

Nell gave Sam a confused look.

"Just now, you got him to open up about what was going through his head. You're good Nell. Oh and don't worry I'll take him out for that beer, while you get your girl talk on with Kensi." Sam chuckled.

Nell smiled as Callen walked out of the bathroom in a fresh change of clothes.

"You good to go Sam."

"Ready when you are G."

Callen nodded and turned to Nell. "Thank you for earlier."

Nell smiled. "You're welcome."

"G!" Yelled Sam

"I better go, don't want to keep the big guy waiting."

Nell laughed.

"I'll see you in OPS." He said as he kissed her.

"Bye" she whispered as she watched Callen exited her apartment.

Sam was waiting by the stairs in Nell's apartment.

Callen headed down the stairs in front of Sam who hadn't moved. "You coming?"

"Yeah" he said

They reached the bottom of the stairs and Sam was staring at Callen. "Come on Sam, out with it."

"Out with what G?" he asked with a smile across his face.

"Whatever you're dying to ask me Sam."

"I just never thought that I would hear you being as forthright and honest as you were with Nell."

"Wait, you were there? You heard…"

"Everything G"

Callen exhaled. "Sam I…"

"No need to explain G. I think its good she's getting you to open up. We can talk more over the beer we're going to share tonight." Said Sam with a smile.

"Fine, beer tonight."

Sam nodded. "Come on G, we're gonna be late and I sure as hell don't want to incur the wrath of Hetty. Said Sam as he got in the car.

Callen chuckled as he got in the other side as they headed into the mission.

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